The written for Yuletide mythology tales are really of a high avarage quality; I've recced some in the past, see Yuletide tag, but you could also just browse the Yuletide archives. (The problem with going directly for "Norse myths" at the AO3 is that you could then run into a couple of Marvelverse stories, which, yeah.) Many are straightforward - two years ago there was this amazingly creepy story about Pentheus and Dionysos of Bacchae fame, and this year there was one about the mothers - but some are, well, twists I suppose one could call it. Two of the outstanding stories I remember from years past without looking them up were mashing Greek myths with 20th century genre fiction and had amazing results. One had Orpheus as a first person narrating noir detective (used to be musician until loss of beloved) in Los Angeles hired by Demeter to find her daughter. (Demeter, Zeus and Hades were siblings there, too, seemingly members of a creepy Mafia like organisation with a legitimate business front, which is why you get distinctly Chinatown overtones in the characterisations of Zeus and Hades, but as Orpheus finds out, there's more to it.) And yes, he finds Eurydike there, too.
And then there was a story which really shouldn't have worked on me, because Agamemnon is one of my most disliked characters in Greek mythology, and yet it totally did: after Helen gets abducted the first time, by Theseus, as a twelve years old, teenage Agamemnon and Menelaos (currently in exile in Sparta because Thyestes has just taken Mycenae) and her sister Klytaimnestra set out to rescue her. It basically uses the YA format and somehow manages a likable Agammemnon who still feels a plausible young version for who he'll become (those traits are there, just not yet written large), and he, Menelaos and Klytaimnestra as bickering teens are endearing heroes of the tale without sledgehammer foreshadowing, and yet, and yet.
As for shipping feuds, I don't think Apollo or Zeus get shipped by anyone. (In the positive sense.) There was one Yuletide with a huge number of Hades/Persephone fics, though, and not in a negative way; it's the Phantom of the Opera effect, I tell you. :)
Oh, I don't want Angie or Souza to be traitors! But the genre being what it is, I suspect one of them will be. The blond guy is unlikeable and hence probably totally not the traitor.
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And then there was a story which really shouldn't have worked on me, because Agamemnon is one of my most disliked characters in Greek mythology, and yet it totally did: after Helen gets abducted the first time, by Theseus, as a twelve years old, teenage Agamemnon and Menelaos (currently in exile in Sparta because Thyestes has just taken Mycenae) and her sister Klytaimnestra set out to rescue her. It basically uses the YA format and somehow manages a likable Agammemnon who still feels a plausible young version for who he'll become (those traits are there, just not yet written large), and he, Menelaos and Klytaimnestra as bickering teens are endearing heroes of the tale without sledgehammer foreshadowing, and yet, and yet.
As for shipping feuds, I don't think Apollo or Zeus get shipped by anyone. (In the positive sense.) There was one Yuletide with a huge number of Hades/Persephone fics, though, and not in a negative way; it's the Phantom of the Opera effect, I tell you. :)
Oh, I don't want Angie or Souza to be traitors! But the genre being what it is, I suspect one of them will be. The blond guy is unlikeable and hence probably totally not the traitor.